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This is a game I'd love to purchase, and that is the most colorful team of ducks I've ever seen.
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Hi all, it’s so fun to find other board gamers on here! We had a regular in-person group until the pandemic and a wave of babies hit…now we just play 2-player games mostly.
My hubby is an inveterate Kickstarter person, and he just showed me flock together so I came on here to share — I see now that’s already been done!
I just wish I had thought of Attila the Hen when I was picking my screen name for here!
Be careful, it can be a rabbit hole! Haha we’re still waiting for one (totally unrelated to Flock Together) that we backed in 2020, and it’s starting to show up on store shelves. Backers are not happy…
Our favorites include Terraforming Mars, Quacks of Quedlinburg (not about ducks, sorry!), Ticket to Ride, Railroad Ink, and Tides of Time. We’ve also been playing a bunch of Not Alone online recently (thank goodness for Board Game Arena!).
Thanks for the heads up on Flock Together. I was aware of Kickstarters existence, but y’all have convinced me to make my first pledge
In fact, I pledged two. I know someone else who would like it and I’d feel bad if it doesn’t eventually hit retail.
Enjoyed Goldie's story almost as much as the post about Forbidden Island, which happens to be one of my favorite games.Caverna
It's been raining for a few days here, so the creek bottoms will be flooded. In preparation for that, it's time to take a look at Forbidden Island!
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I've already mentioned a game called Pandemic and how much I hate it in a previous post. There must be some merit in it, however, since I like so many games that are basically "Pandemic: But Different." Forbidden Island is not only often called an easier version of Pandemic, it's also designed by the same guy who made Pandemic. In Forbidden Island, instead of racing to against time to fight diseases you've gone full Indiana Jones, racing against time to loot the island of four ancient treasures and "Get to the choppa!" before the island completely floods. No dueling against other players in this game; you're all going to have to work together as a team if you want to make it out alive. This is my favorite game in the Forbidden series. It's fun, simple, brightly colored, and has cute and totally unnecessary little toys representing the treasure you're trying to collect, including a flame shaped treasure just begging to be placed on the goblet shaped treasure. I don't think I've managed to go a single game without someone combining those two treasures into a flaming goblet.
Speaking of things forbidden, the bird presenting today's game is Goldie, accompanied by her young'ns. Goldie is my oldest bird, purchased when we were renting and I needed bantam sized breeds so as to more easily sneak chickens past the landlord. She was always broody, and try as I might to forbid her from doing nothing but try to hatch the unfertilized eggs, she'd invariably wind up right back into broody mode. Now we're on our own property with a rooster, and if anyone goes broody, I'm letting it happen - which means Goldie has been in pure hatching heaven.
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Goldie with her first ever chick hatched on this property. She seemed utterly content, but a little surprised something actually came out of the eggs she'd been sitting on.
I thought she'd take breaks between clutches, but no sooner does one batch of chicks abandon her than she starts right up with hatching another batch. She's a fierce mom, and even though she's my only surviving bantam from my original flock and I've replaced everyone with standard sized breeds, the bigger birds know not to mess with her or one of her chicks. She's a force to be reckoned with.
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Some pullets from Goldie's first clutch, checking out three of the island's treasures. Even chickens can't resist placing the flame on the goblet.